Re: Cakephp user session in web service

With a web service your authentication system should be stateless -
that is not dependent on session

Start at http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html#creating-stateless-authentication-systems

HTH
Tarique

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Kiran Ambati <kiran0074u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In cakephp 2.1, I am developing a cakephp application , also web service for
> third party application to access data. Output is json.
>
> First time when user logs in through web service we create some
> authentication token and for every next call client will send the
> authentication token and I have to check authentication token available to
> allow other actions of app.
>
> I wrote a login function. when user tries to logs in , it returns success or
> failure message. This is where I stuck. How to create this authentication
> token? Where does cakephp store user related session? Can I write session
> like
>
>> $this->Session->Write('check.session','random string')
>
> and then read it in second client call using
>
> $this->Session->read('check.session').
>
> Or is there any other better way to achieve this.
>
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> Thank you,
> Kiran.
>
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